Question

I’m working on the example mentioned in primefaces showcase. I am trying to create a global filter for the datatable.
Currently the table looks like this:

What I want to do is remove the individual column filters and have only the global filter.
Like this:

To do that I remove the filterBy attribute on the column definitions. But on doing that, I get a javascript warning – Error in parsing value forfilter, declaration dropped and the global filter doesn’t work.

Could someone please tell me how to achieve this?

Answer 1

Make sure you have the filterBy="#{myRowVar.sonmeField}" in every p:column (because the global filter needs it)

And also add the filterStyle="display:none" in every p:column (adding of filterStyle="display:none" will make it not visible…)